Which of the following is a TRUE statement about the studies on obedience conducted by Stanley Milgram, in 1963?
- His studies were not ethically controversial
- His studies did not involve the use of deception of confederates
- The purpose of his research was to further understand why Nazi soldiers obeyed their orders to commit war crimes during the Holocaust***
- He found that Americans resist obeying authority figures, but Germans do not.
2. What was the dependent variable in Solomon Asch's experiment on conformity?
- The amount of times the confederates provided incorrect responses
- The different amount of confederates that were present in the room with the participants***
- The amount of times the participants' responses aligned with the confederates' responses
- The college students
3. What was the primary finding of Stanley Milgram's 1963 studies on obedience?
- Most people will harm others if told to do so by an authority figure
- Our mothers have an enormous impact on our personality
- What we sense and what we perceive vary according to culture, race, and gender***
- Everyday behavior can by explained by instincts developed in our ancestral population
4. According to your text, which is modification of he opinions of members of a group to align with what they believe is the group consensus?
- inter-group bias
- pattern bias
- group patterns
- groupthink***
Thank you for your time!